Sarah Kanning

The Center for the Study of Science Fiction at KU offers a novel-writing workshop each summer, taught this year by Kij Johnson (whose “26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss” is one of the Nebula finalists this year), and I just sent my application for this summer, which makes me nervous because
a. I might not get in.
b. [...]

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One of my friends is working on a novel. That’s novel, singular. An editor asked her to contribute a short story for an upcoming anthology, so she excerpted and expanded a section of her novel, focusing on one of the supporting characters instead of the protagonist.
Another good friend of mine is primarily working on one [...]

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I gave a talk recently at a reading festival on “Finding a Home for Your Writing.” A lot of the content from that talk is relevant here, so I’ll be posting it bit by bit, but one thing that I forgot to include(!!!!) is Bonnie Hearn Hill’s concept of the Rule of Twelve.
This is from [...]

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